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Date:      Thu, 17 Jun 1999 12:27:44 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Paul Hart <hart@iserver.com>
To:        Richard Childers <rchilders@hamquist.com>
Cc:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: some nice advice....
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990617122502.674B-100000@anchovy.orem.iserver.com>
In-Reply-To: <3768F2C2.B8C340BB@hamquist.com>

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On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Richard Childers wrote:

> I have speculated about building a system with a vast amount of RAM,
> setting the sticky bit on selected executables to make them
> memory-resident,

I might be wrong, but with the advent of sophisticated virtual memory
systems, aren't sticky bits on executables essentially ignored these days? 
I thought that good VM systems made sticky bits on executables basically
useless now.

Paul Hart

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